I see it now
If anyone’s wondering for their own work I think a good way to avoid that result, especially if you still wanna use that brush style, is instead of shading everything with grey, you use darker versions of each individual color. It’s more work but the end result looks more vibrant. However I’d also suggest using a watercolor brush if you wanted to have low opacity non sharp shading, though if you wanted a stipple effect anyway that airbrush being used is the way to go 🙂

I actually heard it the opposite: Shades should be in the contrasting color (possibly with some blue as well). So, like, to shade a purple, use yellow.

I played around with it a bit in one of my art projects, but didn’t get any conclusive info on how best to do it. Might try again. When I think about that advice right now, it sounds like it might make it muddy or brown, but I don’t think that’s what happened when I tried it….

My body doesn’t 3:00am. At all. About 1:30–2:00ish am it just decides that it is going to sleep, regardless, no matter what I am doing. No all-night Risk, no all-night D ‘n D, yeah, just No. But raring’ to go at 6am, no matter what was (cough) interrupted (cough) by sleep. So I’ve never made a bad, or good, decision at 3am– it’s like it doesn’t exist for me.

Remeber the political cartoons on the op-Ed page during the ’50s? The sculls, the bombs, the ‘Gallows’ humour involving death culling humanity from the world. Violence in cartoons has always been part of what cartoons DO for is, allow us to laugh at what scares us. This is what allows me to laugh when Miss Green-glowy Eyes makes Dr. Terror-Hammer jokes, when she could annihilate any one of us.

Interesting approach, although he seems to be making it more ominous than he should be, I get that’s how he “feels” but in cases like this, you have to put aside your feelings and talk about FACTS

straight out facts

All facts, after the initial reaction, qualm fears with facts and share your personal feelings AFTER everything has being digested and both people have a more even playing field for understanding, he’s basically predisposing her to think bad about this “secret” it’s bad enough that he started the whole conversation with “what if I told you”

(to understand where I come from, I’m a divorced father of 3, I’ve always had to be the one holding the emotional reactions of my ex, because she tends to exaggerate issues, if I give her little wiggle room to exaggerate by only stating facts, she can build whatever wild ideas on her own from the basis of facts, which tend to make her wild ideas less wild because they are now grounded on reality, tangible things, actual things that we both know and understand)

It’s not Selkie’s secret, it’s her people’s secret. To reveal or not reveal their existence and nature, that’s a decision that really belongs to the sarnothi people. Unfortunately, they’re not of one mind. Some of them seem to be all done now with keeping themselves secret. Things could get a bit dicey.